Word: bombardment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of secret planning, the U.S. is on the verge of developing a true "clean bomb," with enormous implications for both brush-fire war and big-war tactics. It is the neutron bomb, triggered by a fission process, topped off by a small hydrogen (fusion) explosion, designed to bombard enemy troops in a specific area with millions of fatal, invisible neutron "bullets." The neutron bomb does not damage property, scatters virtually no radioactive fallout, cannot be detected. Friendly troops could enter the area shortly after the bomb had been used. And although the Soviets, to judge from published Russian scientific...
Castro ranted on TV for four hours. "Genocide against our women and children!" he shrieked. "We give the U.S. a naval base in our country, and they give war criminals bases to bombard...
...cost the Japanese "so many ships that I cannot count them." As commander of the big Third Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, he was the scourge of the Japanese Navy. Toward the end of the war, Halsey took task forces of battleships as well as carriers to bombard the Japanese coast. "I had a tremendous steamroller-I could do anything I damned pleased," he said, but the Navy regarded him no more for his victories than for legends about his brilliant staff ("the Dirty Tricks Department"), his casual mess ("This is a pretty rough bunch...
...What-Me Worry?" Most fascinating aspect of Mad's success is that its spoofs appeal mainly to teenagers. They bombard Mad's tiny editorial offices just below Manhattan's Greenwich Village with some 400 fan letters a day, wear T shirts emblazoned with the .face of Mad's grinning imp Alfred E. ("What-me worry?") Neuman, and treasure old issues like collector's items. Maddiction also has become a cult in some adult circles. Comics Ernie Kevacs, Bob and Ray, Henry Morgan and Orson Bean contribute frequently and willingly for next to nothing...
...Baxter) and Actor Richard Carlson submitted their scientific candidate for a detective-story prize. Between fancy patter with the panel, the pair used film, animated cartoons and laboratory models to show how the sleuths of science discovered, clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard the earth. The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays was an instructive hour, much less vulgar in its popularization than Hemo the Magnificent, but it could have done with less sugar-coating ("These science dicks will knock ya for a loop!"), even for the sweet tooth of the bubble...